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Climate & rising waters

Res'eau Based on water issues in Benin, this floating house project offers a new urbanity on the shores of Lake Nokoué.

Climate & rising waters

Res'eau Based on water issues in Benin, this floating house project offers a new urbanity on the shores of Lake Nokoué.

Sea Level Rise
  • Year2020

The project consists of a water collector on stilts, collecting rainwater through a series of water-repellent canvases, curved to guide the water from one to the other. lt is connected to a network of footbridge, an element that moves with the water, offering a stroll through the old dwellings, now flooded and destroyed by the elements, thus creating islands of nature that punctuate the shores of the lake and participate to a new natural ecosystem. They connect floating dwellings inspired by models of traditional Beninese huts.

Quentin
PIGEARD

French